In each of them i told them that i was looking to go with which ever carrier gets them first.
I told both of them that im talking to the other company.
and in Directvs case i mentioned that i heard rumour that Dish is in negotiations with Q and i figured that Directv being the bigger company should be ahead of Dishnetwork. lol
ya gotta play the ace once in a while. they dont want to get beet out by each other so get them racing for our business.
Good to see the support here in this effort.
we used to do this a long time ago, but Q was not that well known and it was iffy if they would even get on the air. now that they are acquiring all these assets and moving forward and actually airing, our requests may pack more of a punch with the satellite providers
Rod
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Gaywired.com 9/15/05 Check out the pics of Nick on that site.
Notes From Hollywood 09.15.05
Scene 1 – In The Nick of Time
I first met Nick Oram, on-air personality for the Q Television Network, when he graciously stopped me for a red carpet interview for his show Q on the Move, at The Abbey West Hollywood on Oscar Night, 2005. Nick, perhaps QTN’s greatest human resource, is blessed with the combination of both internal and external beauty, and I predict his professional drive and work ethic will take him far, whether or not his current network succeeds.
“What exactly is Q on the Move,” I asked Nick in an exclusive interview for Notes From Hollywood.
“QOTM is a travel/destination show that is the first show of it’s kind geared towards the GLBT audience but also captivates the attention of straight audiences as well,” explained Nick. “The show takes viewers to all the hottest, most exciting and interesting places. Giving a unique experience of not only the gay culture there but all access pass into places people can’t go.”
Oram set his sights on Hollywood right after college, and chose La La Land over the Big Apple because of the weather, but how did he get hooked up with the Q Television Network?
“This is sort of funny. It really is the Hollywood story,” explained Nick. “I was referred to an audition by my attorney who said, ‘there is this new gay network and they are casting for a VJ.’ I was working for a record label at the time — Red Zone Entertainment… I went to the audition and gave my Carson Daly stick… I thought I did pretty well. I didn’t hear back for two weeks then I got a call from the casting director asking me to come back… So I went to the Beverly Hilton to be met by a panel of people ranging from producers, casting directors, EVP (Executive Vice President of Programming) to the CEO. Within five minutes, the CEO said to me, 'I have this show idea, Q on the Move, a gay travel show. I want you to host and produce it. It’s all yours.' I was shocked. So needless to say one year and a lot of hard work later, we have one awesome travel show and I am the Executive Producer and Host. That’s the story.”
See the photo gallery of Nick's party at The Abbey in West Hollywood.
GO QBID!!!!!! Now we know how they hire the best.
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This link is an article from the NSD site about the convention. No mention of Q but you will notice the Palm Springs mayor has a mention. Now if we can get one hand to wash the other...
Gay Democrats Move Forward in San Diego by Rex Wockner
SAN DIEGO -- More than 200 hard-core Democratic GLBT activists from 27 states huddled here Aug. 25-28 at the National Stonewall Democrats 2005 Organizing Convention.
"We still have so much to do," said lesbian California Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego. "The conservatives and the religious right are a strong force with generous resources and they will fight us every step of the way. They'll use their money, their political hold they have over supposed Republican moderates like John McCain, and their ties to big business and to numerous right-wing think tanks. They will say our equal rights are special rights."
In an interview, Kehoe said the Stonewall Democrats are about "strategic organizing, articulating a message and getting GLBT Americans to vote and to be active."
"This organization is for the person who is going to give hours and hours to a local campaign, who's gonna raise money, write checks, go to meeting after meeting," she said. "These are the shock troops that go out and raise the interest of the average voter."
Stonewall Democrats Executive Director Eric Stern said the organization finds itself at a key juncture.
"It's a critical time to be working within the party because, quite honestly, in a number of states I think there is a resistance by state party chairs to involve our community in party activities," he said. "We play the role of effectuating change within the party. ... We need to remind the state party chairs around the country that we provide the volunteer energy, we provide the finances, we provide the staff, the ideas, the creativity to so many winning campaigns -- and unless we are given a nicer welcome mat, then there's no reason for us to support state parties."
But State Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, who is running for lieutenant governor, said the Stonewall Dems need to refine their message.
"A national organization like this needs to speak from one voice, have one clear message that is simple to deliver and brings in nongay legislators like myself so that we, holding hands, can deliver an easy message that everybody feels good about," she said in an interview. "Right now, we're splintering each other. It would be much more powerful to have one clear message.
"For me, it's human rights," Figueroa said. "How many people that I know pride themselves that they were associated with the civil-rights movement? Well, this is a civil-rights movement! People will look down in the history books and, I really, truly believe, regret that they weren't part of this incredible movement right now. We have not communicated it clearly enough for people to say they really want to be part of it."
In a lunchtime speech, Figueroa promised delegates she will "go up and down the state, speaking in Spanish, speaking to other grandmothers, speaking to católicos, speaking to anybody I have to about marriage equality, human dignity, human compassion and love."
Gay Palm Springs Mayor Ron Oden said Stonewall also must maintain its focus on electing open gays to public office.
"The greatest thing that we're going to do is to continue working on making sure that we get openly gay and lesbian candidates elected," he said in an interview. "Also, the coalition that we're building to support our marriage-equality initiative and to make sure that our issues continue to stay in the front line of Democratic equality issues."
San Diego City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Donna Frye told delegates they need to "make sure that there's someone there [in office] that's an advocate and that will speak up for you and will do the right thing even when there's nobody watching, and then make sure that the things that are being done behind closed doors, that you should see -- that those doors are kicked right back open."
"When I first ran for my City Council seat in January of 2001," she said, "there were a lot of hot-button issues, and probably none hotter than the Boy Scouts."
Gay activists, atheists and the American Civil Liberties Union were suing to cancel the Boy Scouts' sweetheart lease on land in the city's Balboa Park because of their ban on gays and atheists.
"It turned out to be extremely controversial," Frye said. "The amount of negative campaigning and nasty comments, the extremely inflammatory -- and I mean inflammatory -- campaign ads that went out in our community -- one of them was a picture of a Boy Scout, and it was a crying Boy Scout, he was weeping, and then there was a picture of a happy Boy Scout, and he was smiling. The crying Boy Scout was crying because of Donna Frye. I made the Boy Scout cry! Because standing up for God and your country wasn't good enough for Donna Frye."
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Oh look folks! The man with all the answers!....NOT! You have no clue what your talking about. Lies your good at. You are a ME ME type of guy and nothing else matters.If you where going to wine so much, why did you get into the stock market? Because you thought it was a sure thing. The only thing we are all sure about is you attitude is sickening and it is the only thing you are good at.
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quote:Dilution is a necessary evil if the money is being put to good use. The problems with the majority of QBID investors want something for nothing.
Agreed, but Frank has run us dry. He wants to know why the PPS is going down? It's because people are selling thinking Frank intends to dilute all the way down to 50 billion O/S. He has never indicated otherwise, so why would someone hold at .0012 when they can buy this at .0001 when QBID finally becomes profitable?
He has to complete the audit or promise to not dilute while QBID is under a penny in order for people to have faith in this stock again. It's really that simple. Investors don't want to see dilution. It is a form of generating cash at the expense of the investor.
If anything, the lingering PPS should be making Frank rethink his thoughts on dilution being a good thing. The lower this goes in PPS, the more he has to dilute to get that million here and million there. He has to stop right now, or else he won't even be able to pay his employees. Then it won't just be investors that are ticked off.
I imagine some QBID employees are trying to figure out what his plan is too. Anyone thought about emailing them?
Also, he shouldn't take out a loan to buy back shares. I'm just saying that if QBID is *really* going to be profitable in 6 months, then he needs to secure financing through a loan. The fact that he has not been taking out loans seems to indicate to me that he has no faith in QBID ever generating a profit. And that's not a good sign. He needs to show us that he's willing to make a committment to shareholders, not just throw a DVD at us and hope we fetch it for him.
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"Q" has this quality programming and will make a big impact on the viewers. However, as I have said many times before, we can have all this programming but unless there is a large audience that can turn the TV on and get "Q" it won't make a difference.
We need a larger carrier like Dish or Direct or Comcast (unrestricted full country) to get us into enough homes. IMO this is the only way that the "Q" is going to get the exposure it needs.
There is no doubt that "Q" has the potential and creativity to keep awesome programming out there for the audiences, but again we need coverage plain and simple.
Long, strong, holding and today still accumulating. GO QBID!!!!!!
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got my response from direct tv today everybody should be getting theirs also
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:01:23 -0700 (Z) To: @yahoo.com From: "DIRECTV Customer Service" <directvcustomercare@directv.com> Add to Address Book Subject: programming [Incident: 050916-001449]
Dear Kevin,
Thanks for your interest in DIRECTV. I'm excited to hear that you're considering joining the DIRECTV family.
I'm sorry, but we don't carry Q Television Network right now. However, we often add programming based on customer requests, and I have forwarded your request to DIRECTV management.
I realize that you may have some other questions, so we have set up two ways for you to get fast answers to all of your questions and begin enjoying DIRECTV:
-You'll find great new customer offers and everything you'll need to get started at our web site, just go to http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/get_directv/Landing.dsp. In minutes your order can be placed online. You can even have one of our specialists call you to discuss DIRECTV before you buy by filling in your name and phone number on the web form at http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/LeadGenerationCustomer.do but don't forget to select the box saying that you'd like to receive information by phone.
- If you'd rather order your system by phone, or have questions that couldn't be answered on our web site, you can call us at 888-777-2454 from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Our call center is staffed with knowledgeable Sales Agents who are ready to help.
We look forward to serving you as a customer and showing you why DIRECTV is the best entertainment value available.
Sincerely,
Donna DIRECTV Customer Service
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Someone help me? Why do they say, and this is the second time Ive seen this, the other time it was on a PR, "QTN WorldNews can be seen around the globe Monday through Friday on Q Television Network at 7pm Eastern and 4pm Pacific". Anyways looks good and clips they show are a good selling point.
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If your talking about the around the globe part its because QTV is on C-Band Satelite. So if you have one of the Big Dish C-Band Satelite you can recieve Q now no matter where you live.
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It is to bad that the barriers are there for this company. Great idea with hard work behind it. If the carriers could come in a little quicker then the dilution wouldn't have been as bad. But all in all its still going to be a great company. Once they can break into a couple big carriers this will have a new life of its own. Just based on what Bravo sold for and even with the O/S thats out there that means the pps could reach 25 cents for a 4 billion dollar company. A buy out could bring .15 when you have to factor in preferred shares.
Well, this pps is starting to look good for buying in.
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Hedwig director pushing limits too far for some By JUSTIN BERGMAN Associated Press
NEW YORK — The scene inside the cavernous warehouse on the banks of the East River looks something like a bohemian circus.
Perched in front of makeup mirrors are lesbians with dreadlocks, ripped jeans and knee-high boots, drag queens wearing violently colored wigs and a man in a fleshy fat suit covered with plastic doughnuts. A buxom blonde in a floor-length evening gown adjusts the pink flower pasties under her top, while members of a marching band mill about warming up their trumpets and trombones.
It's just another day on the set for director John Cameron Mitchell, who glides through the crowd in a spray-painted leather jacket, kissing hellos and making final preparations for a party scene in his sophomore film, Shortbus.
Regardless of what the actors are wearing on this day, it's what they're not wearing in much of the film that has generated all the early buzz. Four years after Mitchell put on a coifed blond wig and punk rock T-shirt as an East German transvestite singer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the director is pushing new boundaries with an unfiltered look at sexual relationships that promises to make The Brown Bunny and Mysterious Skin look tame by comparison.
Despite initial problems getting money for the project and the prospect of being slapped with an NC-17 rating, the 42-year-old filmmaker says he's unwilling to hold back on any of his vision — to depict (real) sex in as realistic a fashion as possible.
"I wanted to make a film about sex that had humor, emotional weight and metaphor all at the same time," Mitchell says at his production office. "That's how I've experienced it in my life."
"I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker," he says. "Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it. ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it."
To keep the sex real, Mitchell says he avoided casting professional actors — "stars don't have sex" — and instead placed ads in alternative weeklies inviting people to send in audition tapes. After selecting a cast, he began holding "structured improv" workshops about two years ago to work out a rough sketch of the plot.
The film revolves around a salon of the Gertrude Stein model from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities — or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "shortbus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school.
Though the cast includes actors with varying backgrounds and sexual orientations, the thing connecting them is their humorous and frustrating explorations of sexual relationships. One character, a sex therapist, has never herself experienced an orgasm. A gay couple is thinking about opening up their relationship to include other lovers.
"It travels the fence between tragic and comic, and that's where my life teeters," Mitchell says.
To make everyone comfortable from the start, Mitchell says he kept the improv sessions light, playing "spin the bottle" to help the cast open up. He formed the movie's couples by having the actors watch each other's audition tapes and vote on who they were most attracted to.
Although the cast knew what they were getting into when they signed up, some still had trepidation about having sex in front of a movie crew, let alone a camera.
One actress, who goes by the name Capital B and plays opposite her real-life girlfriend in the movie, says before shooting began earlier this year that Mitchell allowed them to state their own boundaries.
"It was an interesting quandary of mine," she says, adding that initially she didn't see a problem but then didn't want anyone to see her naked.
Adds PJ DeBoy, who plays part of the gay couple exploring an open relationship: "We're lucky because it is a small crew, and we've known each other for over two years, so there's a real great comfortability between all of us."
"Most people get self-conscious being naked in front of other people, but we're really concerned with the story, what's going on within these characters," DeBoy says. "The fact that we're naked having sex in front of each other, it's just a variable that's very easy to deal with."
It wasn't so easy for potential financial backers to deal with, though. Mitchell says he initially approached about 50 to 60 investors, with little luck. Even envelope-pushing HBO, which filmed parts of the audition process, eventually backed away from the project.
"Regular financing companies were scared because they have parent companies," he says. "A lot of investors said they were interested, but they didn't trust their guts."
In the end, most of the budget, which Mitchell estimates at $1 million to 2 million, came from a new gay and lesbian TV network called Q Television. The network, headed by Frank Olsen, will retain the film's cable rights.
The next hurdle will be finding a distributor, which Mitchell hopes won't be difficult after Shortbus premieres in 2006 at a film festival, such as Sundance or Berlin. He's going to allow the film to be unrated, rather than take a chance on receiving a potentially stigmatizing NC-17 rating.
But Mitchell believes there's an audience for his film. He says many people around the country are concerned about the recent influence of conservative mores on arts and entertainment and would welcome a movie to challenge that.
"This is an act of resistance," he says. "There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country. ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it."
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Your master of the tv i see once everyone is gone to bed lol
i hear you
I crashed at just after 1 last night
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quote:Originally posted by Ric: Not bad just getting old, Only time I get to watch TV thats not cartoons. I have to watch American Chopper at 2am, lol.
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quote:Originally posted by Ric: If your talking about the around the globe part its because QTV is on C-Band Satelite. So if you have one of the Big Dish C-Band Satelite you can recieve Q now no matter where you live.
Does that mean that people with satellite can receive Q Television without subscribing? If so, That's not good for us.
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I didn't say its free. It was but not sure that its not scrambled now. You will have to call about that. But most small markets cable carriers still get there signals off of c-band to re-broadcast.
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15 September 2005 Serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since 1971 Film by Nicholas Snow Film: Margaret Cho takes aim Report from 'Assassin' premiere in Hollywood
Margaret Cho at the Assassin premiere in Hollywood. (Photo: Nicholas Snow)
Queer Hollywood was out in force at American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater last month for the world premiere of Margaret Cho's latest concert film, Assassin, the first theatrically released original film from Here! Networks. Assassin is being released simultaneously in theaters throughout the US and TV via video-on-demand and satellite. The network's proceeds from the theatrical release are being donated to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
During the question-and-answer session following the premiere, Cho expressed how happy she is to be part of the queer community. I told her I'm curious to know how she defines herself, sexually.
"I don't know if I do," Cho responded. "Maybe I do, and maybe I don't. To me, anybody's gay, and it goes beyond bisexuality because I think there's more than two sexes. So to me, gender has very little to do with what my attraction to a person would be. It's so much more."
"Have you had a serious romantic relationship with a woman?" I asked.
"Yes," she said, "and serious ones with men, and serious ones with people in-between. I've had quite a lot of very intense love affairs that don't define themselves as much as they should."
I wanted to make sure I understood her. "Do you think it's most likely that your great love in the future would be with a man or with a woman, or do you think it's really unknown?"
"It's a real unknown," Margaret confirmed.
The first celebrity down the red carpet was actor David Milburn, who's about to go before the camera in Here! Network's original film Air Force 2 Down, co-starring Mariel Hemingway. Milburn described himself as a huge Cho fan.
Chastity Bono dropped a hint during our red-carpet interview that she may soon go before the camera, and I took the opportunity to ask her how her mother, Cher, is doing. Great! Does Chastity see her very often? Yes, now that Cher isn't working as much. Chastity was at Cher's farewell concerts at the Hollywood Bowl this summer, and confirms that those concerts were indeed Cher's last at that scale, but don't be surprised if we get to see her in smaller venues. Maybe Vegas?
Actor Alec Mapa walked the red carpet with former Miss Universe Brook Lee. Mapa said of Cho, "I marvel at her bravery." He can be seen in the third season of UPN's Half and Half and in the upcoming film Hard Pill .
Also on the red carpet were former Queer Eye for the Straight Girl gal pals Robbie Laughlin and Honey Labrador, who explained that their new show for Q Television network, Xcess Access, begins airing in September. Any day now, Labrador may announce an expanded production deal with Q Television to include an additional show.
Reichen Lehmkuhl of CBS' Amazing Race fame, currently on Kill Reality on E!, was on hand with John Alati. You may have heard that the reality-TV hunk was discriminated against by a born-again Christian printer who refused to continue printing Reichen's beefcake poster after learning he was gay. Reichen said that the printer received thousands of e-mails in protest.
Cho is off to the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of her new film Bam Bam and Celeste , "a fag and fag-hag" movie also starring Bruce Daniels, Alan Cumming, Jane Lynch and Kathy Najimy. According to IMDB, in Bam Bam and Celeste, Celeste (Cho) and Bam Bam (Daniels) "escape their Midwest hometown on an epic road trip to New York City. There they take on their high school nemeses, now the dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage, and discover that true beauty lies within."
That will be then. This is now, so why Assassins?
"I wanted to do something that was really volatile," explained Margaret. "Humor has the ability to alleviate pain and give us hope for the future."
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From TV Network to, Satellite Telecommunications Company, to the Film Industry. Looks to me Frankie Boy is silently building a G/L Gender Media Empire.
In the end, most of the budget, which Mitchell estimates at $1 million to 2 million, came from a new gay and lesbian TV network called Q Television. The network, headed by Frank Olsen, will retain the film's cable rights
Hedwig director pushing limits too far for some By JUSTIN BERGMAN Associated Press
NEW YORK — The scene inside the cavernous warehouse on the banks of the East River looks something like a bohemian circus.
Perched in front of makeup mirrors are lesbians with dreadlocks, ripped jeans and knee-high boots, drag queens wearing violently colored wigs and a man in a fleshy fat suit covered with plastic doughnuts. A buxom blonde in a floor-length evening gown adjusts the pink flower pasties under her top, while members of a marching band mill about warming up their trumpets and trombones.
It's just another day on the set for director John Cameron Mitchell, who glides through the crowd in a spray-painted leather jacket, kissing hellos and making final preparations for a party scene in his sophomore film, Shortbus.
Regardless of what the actors are wearing on this day, it's what they're not wearing in much of the film that has generated all the early buzz. Four years after Mitchell put on a coifed blond wig and punk rock T-shirt as an East German transvestite singer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the director is pushing new boundaries with an unfiltered look at sexual relationships that promises to make The Brown Bunny and Mysterious Skin look tame by comparison.
Despite initial problems getting money for the project and the prospect of being slapped with an NC-17 rating, the 42-year-old filmmaker says he's unwilling to hold back on any of his vision — to depict (real) sex in as realistic a fashion as possible.
"I wanted to make a film about sex that had humor, emotional weight and metaphor all at the same time," Mitchell says at his production office. "That's how I've experienced it in my life."
"I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker," he says. "Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it. ... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it."
To keep the sex real, Mitchell says he avoided casting professional actors — "stars don't have sex" — and instead placed ads in alternative weeklies inviting people to send in audition tapes. After selecting a cast, he began holding "structured improv" workshops about two years ago to work out a rough sketch of the plot.
The film revolves around a salon of the Gertrude Stein model from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities — or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "shortbus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school.
Though the cast includes actors with varying backgrounds and sexual orientations, the thing connecting them is their humorous and frustrating explorations of sexual relationships. One character, a sex therapist, has never herself experienced an orgasm. A gay couple is thinking about opening up their relationship to include other lovers.
"It travels the fence between tragic and comic, and that's where my life teeters," Mitchell says.
To make everyone comfortable from the start, Mitchell says he kept the improv sessions light, playing "spin the bottle" to help the cast open up. He formed the movie's couples by having the actors watch each other's audition tapes and vote on who they were most attracted to.
Although the cast knew what they were getting into when they signed up, some still had trepidation about having sex in front of a movie crew, let alone a camera.
One actress, who goes by the name Capital B and plays opposite her real-life girlfriend in the movie, says before shooting began earlier this year that Mitchell allowed them to state their own boundaries.
"It was an interesting quandary of mine," she says, adding that initially she didn't see a problem but then didn't want anyone to see her naked.
Adds PJ DeBoy, who plays part of the gay couple exploring an open relationship: "We're lucky because it is a small crew, and we've known each other for over two years, so there's a real great comfortability between all of us."
"Most people get self-conscious being naked in front of other people, but we're really concerned with the story, what's going on within these characters," DeBoy says. "The fact that we're naked having sex in front of each other, it's just a variable that's very easy to deal with."
It wasn't so easy for potential financial backers to deal with, though. Mitchell says he initially approached about 50 to 60 investors, with little luck. Even envelope-pushing HBO, which filmed parts of the audition process, eventually backed away from the project.
"Regular financing companies were scared because they have parent companies," he says. "A lot of investors said they were interested, but they didn't trust their guts."
In the end, most of the budget, which Mitchell estimates at $1 million to 2 million, came from a new gay and lesbian TV network called Q Television. The network, headed by Frank Olsen, will retain the film's cable rights.
The next hurdle will be finding a distributor, which Mitchell hopes won't be difficult after Shortbus premieres in 2006 at a film festival, such as Sundance or Berlin. He's going to allow the film to be unrated, rather than take a chance on receiving a potentially stigmatizing NC-17 rating.
But Mitchell believes there's an audience for his film. He says many people around the country are concerned about the recent influence of conservative mores on arts and entertainment and would welcome a movie to challenge that.
"This is an act of resistance," he says. "There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country. ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it."
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I have something big in store, but would like some help from the group....
I need a "contact" person at
1.ragingbull 2.ihub 3.market millionaires (i got it) 4.Q forum 5.and any other boards that have significant popularity...
The contact person should be the logical and leader of the board...i try not to roam so i dont know to many of the other members of the boards...my plan 1. is to get in contact with them and schudule a meeting of Q shareholders on a paltalk room on wednesday....
2. have them correctly rile their forces on their respective boards in emailing Directv and DISH...we cannot stop now that we have emailed once, we need to get ALL the shareholders to be emailing frequently...Thinking maybe we will have like a ragingbull day where they all email (30-60 emails) then an ihub day(30-60) then an allstocks (30-60) then a mm.com, Q forum and the rest for (30-60 emails...)
we cannot only mass email one day and then give up...THIS is our key to a nationwide carrier and i truely believe we will be carried by one if we can follow up on this plan...a steady stream of 30+ emails per day requesting Q with differnt names, emails, etc....
The Directv and DISH representitves have always said that the channels are added/dropped based on demand...well, we know there is big demand out there for Q, and by getting them a nationwide carrier like DISH or Directv, it will allow them to throw thier "Q parties" and "grand openings" in cities like San Fran, Chicago, Miami, New York...and get real big subscriber numbers....yes i know they are in San Fran and New york now, but they are on RCN cable...what the heck is that!!(lol)
We will create the demand with a gassroots campaign and put the ball in Q managements court once we are on Direct or DISH....
Understand that our email campaign is not a waste...They do base it mainly on demand so i honestly believe if we email 30+ emails per day for 2 weeks that Directv or DISH would carrier QTV...QBID would run major on that news and some of the traders could get out and the long term holders would now see the major revenue stream create...
We have got to take it upon ourselves to carry Q...30 emails is not that much, on Friday, we must have had at least 50 and that was just allstocks, ihub and mm.com....
I am also going to get in touch with Richard on Monday and reveal to him the plan we have created and that Frank and co. should negotatite hard and mainly with DISH and Directv...
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Something else to consider is with those emails we have recieved from Directv....maybe email them back giving them personal anecodotes....keeping in contact with them will also build the relationships and their personal rememberecne of the QTN demand...By replying to their emails they will see be remembering the Q demand from the day before...They will be replying to your email regarding Q demand and building a personal relationship while in the next couple hours they will see 20 more emails regarding Q and 10 more replys to QTN demand emails....
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